ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,495, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arrinex Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Direct vision cryosurgical probe and methods of use" was invented by Vahid Saadat (Atherton, Calif.), Matthew Herron (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Richard C. Ewers (Fullerton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct vision cryosurgical and methods of use are described herein where the device may generally comprise an elongated rigid structure with a distal end, a proximal end, and a central lumen. The distal end may comprise a non-coring optically transparent needle tip with at least one lateral fenestration in communication with the central lumen. The ...